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The SEAMONSTER Sensor Web: Lessons and Opportunities after One Year

The SEAMONSTER Sensor Web: Lessons and Opportunities after One Year. Fatland, DR, MJ Heavner, E Hood, C Connor. Outline. What is SEAMONSTER? What are the goals of SEAMONSTER? How to encourage/facilitate collaboration Lessons Learned.

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The SEAMONSTER Sensor Web: Lessons and Opportunities after One Year

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  1. The SEAMONSTER Sensor Web: Lessons and Opportunities after One Year Fatland, DR, MJ Heavner, E Hood, C Connor

  2. Outline • What is SEAMONSTER? • What are the goals of SEAMONSTER? • How to encourage/facilitate collaboration • Lessons Learned

  3. SouthEastAlaskaMOnitoringNetwork forScienceTechnologyEducation and Research SEAMONSTER Tlingit carving of Gunakadeit, the seamonster, in downtown Juneau. A modern seamonster tentacle. We seek inspiration from a Tlingit legend of a seamonster who brought fish and furs to an impoverished village. We see the modern parallel of harvesting and distributing geospatial information via a sensor web to a world struggling with climate change.

  4. SEAMONSTER • Scientifically Motivated Technology Development funded by NASA ESTO (AIST) • Testbed Sensor Web > Technology Collaborations • Path for Technology Infusion > Scientific Collaborations

  5. 50 km Scientific Motivation, 1 Long term monitoring of the Juneau Icefield to observe watershed and ocean ecological impacts of glacial recession

  6. Scientific Motivation, 2 Detection of transient glacial lake outburst floods and observation for watershed impacts Lake post-drainage Lake pre-drainage

  7. Lemon Creek Watershed 5 km The University of Alaska Southeast has (relatively) easy access to these areas. The initial watershed of interest is the Lemon Creek watershed (fed by Lemon Glacier) which can be entirely accessed via hiking. Lemon Glacier was monitored as part of IGY (1957-58) and is again being studied for IPY (2007-8).

  8. Project Challenges • Resource management • Power constrained (batteries and solar) • Also: storage, bandwidth • Different sampling requirements • Long term monitoring • Transient, rapidly evolving events • NEED SEMI-AUTONOMY or AGENTS

  9. Lemon Creek Sensor Web Met Station, Web Cam, Comm Hub Lake Level, GPS, Geophone Met Station, Web Cam Water Qual, USGS Gauge Water Qual Communication between the nodes enables the Sensor Web. Ex: pressure transducer ( ) detects lake drainage and passes the message reconfiguring other sensor behavior.

  10. Platforms Linksys NSLU-2, a UAS testbed platform, Linux Deployment-ready tmote Vexcel provided GeoBrick, Linux There are three different platforms in use, with relative computation, storage, and sensing capabilities as well as power requirements and cost. Tmote, tinyOS

  11. Transducers A combination of weather and water quality measurements provided the main data streams for SEAMONSTER in year 1.

  12. Goals of SEAMONSTER • Implement Event -> End User Sensor Web • Technology Testbed • Technology Infusion • Education

  13. Goals of SEAMONSTER • Implement Event -> End User Sensor Web • Technology Testbed • Technology Infusion • Education • How to? Collaboration

  14. Collaboration Agents are needed to reconfigure data acquisition based on observations and power states. Ex: If the lake pressure transducer measures a drop in lake level: • Retask the camera to focus on the lakes • Alert systems down glacier to collect (relax power management)

  15. SEAMONSTER Architecture • Modularity • Scarce Resource Allocation • Redundancy • Event to End User

  16. Role of IPY • IPY is a year(s) • Legacy of IPY • Legacy of IGY

  17. Conclusions • SEAMONSTER is a testbed sensor web • SEAMONSTER is training scientists and citizens • to use this new paradigm of sensing • Compelling Use Case • Key Architectural Concepts: • Modularity • Digital Earth • http://seamonsterak.com/

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